Please attach savegames for almost any issue, it'll help a lot. In case you can't or don't want to include it in the forum post, my email address is: tim13on ( on ) egosoft.com, of course remove the 13 and ( on ) is @ (hope not too many spam bots figure that out);p

If textures are broken (red green blue stripes):
You are running open-source drivers without support for texture compression.
If you have an AMD/ATI or NVIDIA graphics card you should install the proprietary drivers.
If you are running Intel graphics or wish to use open-source drivers you will have to install libtxc-dxtn.

Ubuntu: you should get a prompt to install the library, if not report a bug and either:
search for libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0 in the "ubuntu software center",
or open a terminal and type in: "sudo apt-get install libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0" when prompted enter your password and follow any later instructionsMint/Debian: probably same as ubuntu (the terminal instructions)Gentoo: "sudo emerge media-libs/libtxc_dxtn"

Generic information:

Cloud-sync between Windows and Linux is not supported.Savegames are by default stored in a hidden folder ".config/EgoSoft/X Rebirth/save/" in your home directory as save_001.xml, save_002.xml etc.
Windows savegames should be two-way compatible, if there are any issues please report a bug.

System and driver compatibility:
There is and will only be a 64bit version on Linux.
Steam is required to run the game.
Currently we only support SteamOS and Ubuntu 14.04, however it's likely to run on any reasonably modern linux distribution.
Only proprietary drivers from nvidia and amd are officially supported, however we do hope to add support for open source drivers in the future.

Joystick/Controller setup:Controllers:
If you have a relatively common xbox-like controller it should work fine out-of-the-box. Please report a bug if that's not the case.

Joysticks:
First go to Settings, Controls, Load Profile and select "Default - Joystick".
After that you will need to setup button mappings (mainly in Controls, Space), as the default will most likely not fit your joystick.
If the default axis configuration is incorrect you can remap them the same way as buttons.
To invert an axis search for "Invert Axes" in the Controls menu in the "Controller / Joystick" sub-section.

Known issues and missing features:

Weapon overheating may sometimes stop/block temporarily

Long game launch time (window/screen may be black during this so please give it a few minutes)

Transparency order issues for ice asteroids on amd-catalyst driver

Performance issues in asteroid fields

Bugreporting:

We now have a proper Bug Tracker, so feel free to report issues in it.

Please prefix each comment in the bug tracker with "<forum_name>:" so I can tell who's who (you can use a fake name if you want, just keep using it, even between different bugs because they can be related).
Please always post gpu & driver, preferably also cpu/ram, distro and version.

Please attach screenshots & savegames for almost any issue, it'll help a lot. In case you can't or don't want to include it in the forum post, my email address is: tim13on ( on ) egosoft.com, of course remove the 13 and ( on ) is @ (hope not too many spam bots figure that out);p

If you notice anything "pink/blue/green" the best thing to do is give us a screenshot & savegame.
If you notice something looking ugly it would help a lot if you can verify it's linux specific first, then give us a screenshot & savegame.

To get a debug game log (in desktop mode) please:

Completely close steam

Open a terminal/console

Type in: steam -console

Steam should now run and redirect all of its output to that terminal/console window.

Launch XRebirth from steam, you should get output from the game to that terminal window.

- When V-Sync switched off it makes screen/resolution very tiny. Screen is visible on lower left corner but it doesn't draw menus anymore. It is still rendering the game itself so it is not freezed.
- Small icons on stations are covered by white boxes for a short amount of time (blinks).

+ Loading times are much faster on SteamOS compared to Windows 8.1 (cold: ~20s vs ~30s, warm: less than 10s vs ~25s);

Started campaign, Done first mission/story line.(Taken erm whats her face back to her ship/people)

Have set at ultra @ 1440p fps is 70-80 nice and smooth too.

Only thing I could actually pick fault with is it seems a bit bright. But not played it via windows so not sure. Will have to look at some vids to check. Did try a screen shot same as fallenwizard tried, didn't crash mine but only showed opening screen, not actual in game shot. Buffer read maybe?

But apart from that seems a solid port timon especially for and alpha build!

@xarses if you run from the terminal like that what you see is normal.
So first close steam, then from terminal run "steam -console", then just run the game from steam and you should get a full log, just put the last 200 lines online and link it here.
Not being able to load that shader means we're using something that your driver doesn't support (probably GL_ARB_shading_language_420pack), or there's a syntax/semantic incompatibility.

Also I didn't test nouveau, but it's quite likely not to work, even with fairly new mesa. I do hope to properly support the open-source drivers (for now I just tried not to use too many extensions above 3.3) but for now there are more important priorities.

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- I can not turn on the V-Sync option, the menu stated that ON, but the FPS counter in the Steam overlay shows 200-300.
- not working command line option, etc -language, have to change the file lang.dat. I play with the German voice acting and Russian subtitles: